Both Israelis and Palestinians continue to ramp up threats as both sides prepare for increased fighting. Jerry Seib and foreign affairs reporter Jay Solomon discuss the conflict.

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I ... the security situation in Israel which was tense after what appeared the rival killings of Israeli and Palestinian teenagers ... has gotten downright dangerous in the last few days with ... your planes and rockets firing back and forth across the border between Israel and Gaza Strip ... we talked about that in the capital Journal ... round table discussion this week ... and I had this conversation with Jay Solomon my colleague to talk about how little the US appears to be able to do to influence the situation ... here's what he said ... and I took the lead in this ... situation is scary is there's not ... a sort of half the seats in the US the least normally ... U S was to be heavily involved in trying to de escalate ... in right now you just don't feel that it now carries ... so much time over the past year ... trying to build this peace process which broke down in late April ... that just ... says he's in the heavily heavily involved in ... outside of the US is Egypt and the Egyptian president has a total waste of my so there doesn't seem to be a path to de escalate ... watch all the conversation Plosser conversations about immigration and the job situation when the capital Journal round table when it streams live long doubly SJ dot com Friday morning eleven ... am When son doubly SJ lie after that ...